I was really happy to see that the new revival of Hair on Broadway, which officially opened last night, got a great review in the NYTimes by the not-always-easy-to-please Ben Brantley. Given what the show is about, I thought this was a particularly telling sentiment from Brantley:"The kids of 'Hair' are cuddly, sweet, madcap and ecstatic. They’re also angry, hostile, confused and scared as hell — and not just of the Vietnam War, which threatens to devour the male members of their tribe. They’re frightened of how the future is going to change them and of not knowing what comes next. Acting out the lives of the adults they disdain ... becomes a cathartic ritual."
"Hair" seems to be one of the shows in which a revival must, in order to be successful, truly evoke the energy, emotion and everything & all that the original production embodied (whereas some other plays/musicals are wonderfully revived in an interpretation very different from the original)... and, it sounds like this one does the original sound justice. This is definitely on my list of shows to see!
Photo credit: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
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